Posts Tagged ‘Arabs World’

UAE crown prince ‘asked US to bomb Al Jazeera,’ leaked cable reveals Reporters Without Borders condemn the crackdown on Al Jazeera. “We are really worried about the implication and consequences of such requirements if it will ever be implemented,” said Alexandra El Khazen, head of M[...]

Chinazor Onianwah Thank you for this Chioma. Tunisia was one of the places I dreamed of visiting before my time expired. Tunisia, which used to be Carthage, was where Catholicism evolved from an African religious ritual of the burning of incense, the breaking of kola nut and the pouring of libatio[...]

David Preston These guys have the courage of despair, like the Russkies at Stalingrad. You could say: Oh, they’re just fighting cuz they have to, that doesn’t take courage. –But it still does, you see, because these guys can’t call in airstrikes or get medivacked when they go d[...]

BDS and other pro Intestinal groups see their campaigns as moral. Moral, however needs to be judged by history. Antisemitism was not just the sin of Christian Europe. While Jews did live better in Islamic Arab lands, that life was at best parlous. The Quran itself records the Prophet’s [...]

Abstracted form a Boston Globe:OPED by Stephen Kinzer The Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why. For three years, violent militants have run Aleppo. Their[...]

Saudi Arabia sends troops and fighter jets to military base in Turkey ahead of intervention against Isis in Syria Saudi Arabia is sending troops and fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik military base ahead of a possible ground invasion of Syria. The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu[...]

“there (is) no logic in these arguments because the Kingdom has been targeted by terrorists for several years.” Arab News JEDDAH: Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has slammed reports alleging that Saudi Arabia supports extremist groups, saying there was no logic in these arguments becaus[...]